A better way to count

by jim orsini

There has been some discussion recently about the way medals are counted at the Olympics. Do we only count gold or total medals?

Well, I have the best way and it shows the US is far above anyone else. And, thanks to the NBC site, I have the data.

The real measure should be how many individuals walk away from the Olympics with a medal. Not how many events were won. we should applaud the people who got a medal after all that hard work.

So, if you go to the total medals for the US and for China, you can see the individuals who won a medal and what color it was. Putting this into an Excel spreadsheet, I could do a little data mining.

The results:


We just do so much better in the team sports. So let’s count all of the medals, not just enumerate the events.

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